Currycomb.



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Specification of Letters Patent.

Katented April 16, 1907'.

Application led February l, 1907. Serial No. 355,306.

To nifl/ wh/m, it #may con/cern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM D. WHEAT, a citizen of the United States, residing atl Jamestown, in the county of Russell and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curry,

tion.

This invention has for its object a simple and cheap construction of currycomb which may be readily opened to clean the teeth whenever desired; and the invention consists in certain constructions and arrange ments of the parts hereinafter described and claimed.

For a full understanding of theinvention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of i the means for effecting the result. reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my improved currycomb, parts being shown closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the two plates of the comb in an open position, and Fig, 3 is a longitudinal sectional view with parts closed.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the base-plate of my improved currycomb, which is provided with the cur- ,f rying-teeth that are in the present instance in the form of U-shaped bars 2, riveted o r otherwise secured to the said base-plate. The base-plate 1 is provided with a handle 3, which is formed at its outer end with aspringhook 1l.

A cleaning-plate 5, which is preferably coextensive with the base-plate l, is hinged to said base-plate at one edge and is provided with a series of transversely-extending slots 7, adapted to accommodate the bars 2 when the two plates are swung over one upon the other. The cleaning-plate 5 is provided with a forked attaching portion 9, extending along the edges of the cleaning-plate 5 and riveted or otherwise securely attached thereto, where the said members will not interfere with the bars 2, projecting through the slots 7 The outer end of the handle member 8 is adapted to be snapped into the spring-hook 4l of the handle 3, so as to secure the parts of the currycomb together in operative relation.

From the foregoing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that the two handles 8 and 3 are in alinement with each otherwhen the device is in practical use, so that the currycomb may be conveniently manipulated, and that the bars 2 project through and have position in the slots 7 of the cleaning-plate 5. It is lobvious, then, that in order to clean the currycomb it is only necessary to snap the handle member 8 out of the spring-hook 4L and swing the cleaning plate outwardly, which operation will strip the bars 2 of the hair and other matter with which they have become clogged,-

IIaving thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- The herein described currycomb, comprising a base-plate provided with curryingbars, and a handle provided at its outer end with a spring-hook, a cleaningplate provided with a series of slots adapted to accommodate said currying-bars, the cleaning-plate being hinged at one end to the basey plate and provided with a handle, the outer end of which is adapted to spring into said hook and the other end of which is forked, the members of the fork being attached to the cleaning-plate at the sides thereof, where they will not interfere with the said slots.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

KATE SIMPSON, C. A. HAMANEUEL. 

